- Title: INDONESIA: SURVIVOR PULLED FROM EARTHQUAKE RUBBLE AFTER DAYS TRAPPED, LATEST.
- Date: 2nd April 2005
- Summary: (BN08) GUNUNG SITOLI, NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA (APRIL 2, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. GV: DAMAGED HOUSE 0.04 2. MV/CU: RESCUE TEAM TRYING TO PULL OUT INDONESIAN MAN, HENDRA, TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE (3 SHOTS) 0.19 3. MV: ONLOOKERS 0.23 (BN10) GUNUNG SITOLI, NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA (APRIL 2, 2005) (REUTERS) 4. MV/GV: RESCUE WORKERS AROUND THE SPOT WHERE HENDRA WAS FOUND ALIVE (2 SHOTS) 0.38 5. GV/MV: RESCUE WORKERS CARRYING HENDRA (HENDRA NOTT SEEN) 0.59 6. GV/CU/GV: HENDRA IN HOSPITAL BED; HENDRA WITH TUBE IN HIS MOUTH; WOUNDS BEING TREATED (5 SHOTS) 1.27 (BN08) GUNUNG SITOLI, NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA (APRIL 2, 2005) (REUTERS) 7. GV/CU: PEOPLE TRYING TO SHIFT HUGE BOULDER BLOCKING THE ROAD (2 SHOTS) 1.40 8. TV: PEOPLE ON FOOT AND ON MOTORBIKES CROSSING THE ROAD AFTER IT WAS CLEARED 1.49 9. GV/MV: REFUGEE TENTS; PEOPLE AT CAMP (3 SHOTS) 2.03 10. (SOUNDBITE)(Bahasa Indonesia) DAMERIAN MANDRERA SAYING: "I have been looking for a food since the morning, I only have water. I have been walking around the town. I hope I can get food from the rescue team." 2.21 11. GV/MV: AID BOXES BEING UNLOADED FROM CHINOOK (2 SHOTS) 2.30 12. MV: INDONESIAN SOLDIERS LOADING BOXES ONTO TRUCK 2.34 (W1) TELUKDALAM, NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA (APRIL 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 13. GV/MV: DESTROYED BUILDINGS IN CITY (2 SHOTS) 2.44 14. GV/CU/MV/GV: INJURED AT MEDICAL RELIEF HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: GUNUNG SITOLI AND TELUKDALAM, NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Reuters ID: LVA2Q99MZKKFA8OJ9OZ4P4LA35ZT
- Story Text: Rescuers pull out alive an Indonesian man buried
under rubble for days, while thousands are in desperate
need of aid.
Rescuers on Saturday (April 2) pulled out alive an
Indonesian man trapped for five days in the rubble of his
three-storey shophouse, giving some rare cheer to residents
of the island of Nias, devastated by Monday's earthquake.
Singaporean and Mexican rescue workers freed the man
after digging down to him through chunks of concrete and
other debris in a tense operation lasting about seven
hours.
The 42-year-old ethnic Chinese man, Hendra, was placed
on a stretcher and taken to hospital. His two daughters and
wife were presumed to have been killed in the quake.
Soldiers had heard a voice calling for help from the
rubble in the morning and alerted the foreign rescue teams,
who managed to get food and water to Hendra while digging.
Around 1,500 Indonesian soldiers have been digging
through the rubble of houses destroyed in the magnitude 8.7
quake on Monday night.
But rescuers who pulled several survivors from
buildings earlier this week had said there was little hope
of finding anyone else alive.
The U.N. has said 1,300 people may have died in Gunung
Sitoli alone, and there are concerns the death toll could
rise as they reach isolated parts of the island that have
been cut off by landslides and damage to roads.
Deaths have also been reported on nearby islands.
Relief workers are trying to reach thousands of people
cut off from aid in the area off Sumatra island near Aceh
province, where another quake in December triggered a
tsunami that killed or left missing nearly 300,000 people
along Indian Ocean shores.
Reuters correspondents who rode by motorbike from
Gunung Sitoli along the road to Teluk Dalam town some 120
km (75 miles) south on Friday saw widespread damage to
houses, bridges and roads and little sign of aid reaching
people.
Thousands of people are facing food and water shortages
because the quake destroyed water mains and markets.
"I have been looking for a food since the morning, I
only have water. I have been walking around the town. I
hope I can get a food from the rescue team," said one woman
living in a camp for victims of the earthquake.
Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said the
government is sending more ships and helicopters from the
mainland and would try to restore the water supply within a
week.
Heavy rains on Thursday and early on Friday have
hampered relief and rescue efforts, but increasing numbers
of aid workers and supplies have begun to reach Nias.
An Australian navy ship carrying 60 medical personnel
docked in Nias on Saturday morning to help treat hundreds
of people injured in Monday's quake.
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